Alara's Q-niverse

I possibly have the record for Q obsession, at least on the Internet; to the best of my knowledge I am the only person who was writing Q fanfic in the early 90's who hasn't permanently moved on to other fandoms. Some of what's on this page (mostly the stuff at the very bottom) is utter crap because it was supposed to be humor and I wrote it 25 years ago when I had no sense of humor. :-) But since by the miracle of being born two decades before the Internet hit it big, I was spared the humiliation of having my Mary Sues and other total crap from my teens immortalized on the net forever, I give thanks in humility by allowing the crap I wrote in my 20's to stay up. :-)

Updates:

A note on timelines and "canon":

Many of my Q stories were written or started before the Voyager series came out, and thus do not necessarily take place in a timeline where any of the Voyager Q episodes are canon. For example, "Only Human" and its various spinoffs do not consider "The Q and the Grey" canon. However, most of what I've begun after 2003 or so does incorporate "The Q and the Grey" and "Q2" as canon.

The Deja Q Spinoff Tree: Contains links to Only Human and all Only Human-related works (PropinQuity
by Mercutio, InseQurity by Mercutio and me, The Night They Drove The Borg Down by me) and to other Deja Q spinoffs (Familiar Strangers by me, The Q Who Fell To Earth by Jeanita Danzik, Lowest Common Denominator by Queriana, etc.).

Stories of Q's Past: This page includes any story that takes place prior to "Encounter at Farpoint" within Q's own timeline.

Q and the Continuum: This page includes stories in which Q interacts with other members of the Q Continuum. Stories of other members of the Continuum that don't actually include Q are in a different section.

Janeway and Q: This includes both Janeway/Q (romantic pairing) and Janeway&Q (friendship pairing) fics. I do like Janeway and Q with each other; I don't typically see a lot of romantic chemistry, but John de Lancie and Kate Mulgrew are good friends in real life, so I do see a lot of friendship chemistry there.

Picard and Q: Okay, I admit it, this one is one of my big OTPs. I'm perfectly happy to pair Q with anyone else, but somewhat dissatisfied with any other Picard pairing that doesn't at least acknowledge this one. I don't always write them in a romantic pairing... but, okay, I usually do. :-)

Others

"Seventeen Things That Might Have Happened To Q" is based on the popular "Five Things That Never Happened To X" meme, where X is any character in any fandom. To do it for Q, I couldn't limit it to just five, so I chose seventeen because that's the numerical position for Q in the alphabet, and I couldn't make it "never happened" because the whole theme is that the character represents endless possibilities. This story was heavily inspired by my friend Atara Stein and her work in the novel "QStruck"; sadly, Atara passed away in March 2008.

Seventeen Things That Might Have Happened To Q: Seventeen separate AUs from Q's point of view. Includes Picard/Q, Janeway/Q, Guinan/Q, Kirk/Q, Amanda Rogers, Will Riker, Trelane's other dad and several variants of character death. No explicit sex, no violence more explicit than someone getting thrown out an airlock or talking about being mentally violated. Link goes to fanfiction.net because linking seventeen stories to each other is a pain in the butt.

Q Drabbles:

I wrote these for the Livejournal trek100 community.
A drabble is exactly 100 words, and each is written for a specific challenge.
Microsoft Word thinks these are 100 words each, at least. They're all different
time periods and some aren't even the JdL Q.

Boys' Night Out: Thus
far, incomplete, though I expect to finish it one of these days. Q's son invites
his friend Icheb out to explore the universe. Minor spoilers for the pro Voyager
novel "Homecoming", though I didn't read the sequel so I'm just guessing how
that will turn out. This is going to be slash, though so far all it involves is
witty banter.

First Born Son: Written for the LGBTFest on Livejournal for the prompt: Star Trek (any era), Q, Identifying as male makes Q transgender in the Q Continuum, since most Q don't identify with a gender at all. I am kind of cheating in that the story is about Q's son, since I don't see the JdL Q as tied to his male appearance at all, but for some reason I've long thought Q Jr was essentially male. But hey, the prompt says Q, and the kid's name is Q also. Besides, it was kind of hard to find a story if it had been the adult Q, given that if you've known someone for five billion years it's really not going to come up anymore that they're unusual in some way that doesn't personally impact you much.

Q-related essays:

Essays I've written having to do with Q.

Through
and Through Q: Written for Idol Reflection,
a livejournal community dedicated to essays on one's favorite characters.
Q's canonical history, and how I feel it all ties together despite the writers'
best efforts.

Captain
Control and the God of Ritalin: Written for Ship Manifesto, a
livejournal community dedicated to essays on one's favorite "'ships", or fanfic
pairings. In this case, I discuss Picard/Q and the reasons why I think
it's a viable way to perceive the series.

The Q livejournals:

In 2003-2004, there were two ongoing Star Trek sockpuppet communities on Livejournal, where a bunch of us had
LJ's that purport to belong to Trek characters. The first community was Trekjournals. I
had Q and Amanda Rogers. The time period was DS9 Relaunch, Season 5 Voyager. The
second community was Treksoap (described by
its founder as "a bitchy soap opera"). Q and Amanda were both spending more of
their time in Treksoap (being dimension-spanning entities, they can cross
between two incompatible universes). Then the games both kind of died, but they were fun while they lasted.

Theatrical Muse: I am writing Q in the
Theatrical
Muse community, where there's a weekly question posed to all the fanfic
socks present. Q's entries are here.

Realm of the Muse: I'm also writing Q in the
Realm of the Muse community, where each week there are multiple prompts posed to all the fanfic
socks present. Q's entries are here.

Muse Academy: I am also writing Q in the
Muse Academy community, which uses a small number of prompts per week, and also "muse inquiries" where the writers write about their characters. Q's entries are here.

Pan-Fandom Roleplaying

Sages of Chaos: Q frequents the
Sages of Chaos community, for asking questions and getting answers. Q's questions are here, and his replies to other people's questions are here.

Hearts and Minds: As of Apr. 2009, I just joined the game Hearts and Minds with Q, who has been shot by someone in the Continuum and has been sent to the village to recuperate, unable to use his powers. This link includes the posts from the previous player of Q as well; mine are the ones from Apr 2009 and later.

A note on the Q parodies:

I don't write funny very often-- it takes a funny character like Q to inspire
me. "Super Wesley" was written in response to a thread about who would win in a
fight between Wesley, the Traveller, and/or Q. "A Q In The Hand" is a parody of
flyers for slash zines, and the excerpts they include to illustrate their
stories. "10 Q Ideas" was the result of brainstorming with a young man who would
rather remain anomymous. It's all his fault, I swear. :-) "The Q Who Fell..."
came about because Mercutio, Jeanita and I were all kind of borrowing ideas from
each other in a sort of incestuous way, and we all had the premise of Q losing
his powers and getting rescued by some female original character, and we'd all
been exposed to the Mary Sue accusations, so we decided to parody ourselves.

A note on the Q reviews:

It's been a while since any of these reviews were updated. I would like to
get back to them one of these days, though.

The New Q Reviews:
Written by Queria. Reviews of Q's appearances in the comics. To the best of my
knowledge, this covers all of Q's appearances but one, and that one is
essentially a repeat of the Klingon story except with androids like Data instead
of Klingons.

The Biblio-Q: A fairly
comprehensive reference to Q fanfic written as of 1997, complete with reviews by
Alara and Mercutio. Hasn't been updated in a while.